Michael Lombardo

Michael Lombardo is Chairman of the BookNook Board of Directors, having founded the company in 2016. BookNook is an award-winning social enterprise that uses adaptive technologies to support reading skill growth at school, at home, and in the community. Prior to founding BookNook, Lombardo served as CEO of Reading Partners, building it into one of the largest children’s literacy nonprofits in America and publishing seminal research on volunteer-based reading programs that was accepted into the What Works Clearinghouse at the U.S. Department of Education. A frequent author on subjects of education policy, social entrepreneurship, and nonprofit governance, Lombardo also served as a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University and is a founding Advisory Council member of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, President Obama’s signature initiative focused on supporting boys and young men of color.